Salt drier



April 1 1924.

R. B. WICKER sApT DRIER Fil-ed Sept. 6.

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ROBERT 23. VIICEIER, Uli* SALT te y

BALTITJIRE, MARYLAND.

DRIRE.

Application fed September 3, 1923. Serial No. 661,122.

To all LU/201m t may concern.'

Be it known that l, ROBERT B. W'ionnn, a citizen et the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful lmprovements in Salt rrifers, of which the following is a specification.

rlhis invention relates to improvements in salt driers, and has for its objectto provide a cabinet having a number of peiL orated shelves on which the ksaltshakers rest when not in use, a drum in which the salt is kept and from which the shakers are .iilled, and means for heating the cabinet to a predetermined degree olf heat suiiicient to absorb the moisture and keep the salt in the shakers and said drum perfectly dry.

I1`he invention consists oi the novel construction and arrangement oiE the parts and combination of parts hereinafter more fully set forth in the following specification and pointed out in detail in the appended claims.

ln the accompanying drawingf Figure 1 is aperspective view of a cabinet showing my invention applied thereto.

Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal section oiE the salt drum, on an enlarged scale.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, 'forming part of this specification, and in which like reference numerals designate like parts throughout the several views thereof, 1 designates a cabinet which may be made or" wood, metal, or other suitable material, and is provided with doors 2 and 3, but one door may be employed ii desired. llfithin the cabinet 1 are a number of shelves 4L- having perforations 5 through which the heat passes to the shakers (not shown) which rest on the said shelves when not in use. Below the shelves iis removably secured a drum 6 having a hopper 7 near one end and a discharge nozzle 8 near the other end; the said vdischarge nozzle 8 is provided with a cut-oil valve 9 to control the discharge of salt from the drum 6 to the shakers being lilled. The said drum 6 is mounted on an incline downwardly from the hopper to the discharge nozzle, and has projections 10 at each end which dt into the sockets 11 on the cabinet 1 so that the said drum can be removed when desired. Within the drum 6 is revolubly mounted a shaft 12 which is revolved by means oic the crank 18 screwed into one end of the said shaft and projecting through an aperture 14: in the side o the cabinet 1. The said drum 6 is also provided on the inside with a stationary perforated disk 15. lhe shaft 12 is provided with a number of blades or agitators 16 and two blades 17 arranged close to the disk and set at an angle so that they will crush any lumps of salt against the disk 15 before it can pass through the apertures in said disk. Below the drum 6 is an electric heater 18 connected to a suit-able electric supply, which keeps the cabinet at a predetermined temperature sutticient to keep the salt in the shakers and in the drum perfectly dry.

The salt is poured into the hopper 7 and runs down into the drum 6, where it is kept dry at all times. When the crank 13 is turned the salt will be forced down through the apertured disk 15 to the lower end et the drum 6 and into the discharge nozzle 8, l/Vhen it is desired to till the shaker the latter is held under the discharge nozzle 8 and the cut od valve 9 operated to allow the salt to How into the shaker and is cut od when the latter is suhciently filled. This operation is repeated as often as it is desired to till a shaker. When the shakers are not in use they are kept in the cabinet on the shelves e where the salt therein will be Aept perfectlyvdry.

My invention is especially adapted for use in hotels and steamboats, or wherever a great amount of moisture is absorbed by the salt.

The cabinet 1 may be of any desired size to accommodate the number of shakers employed. Having thus described my invention, what l claim is:

1. A salt drier comprising a cabinet, a drinn removably secured in said cabinet and having an inlet and an outlet for the salt, means for forcing the salt through the drum, and a heater within said cabinet. f

2. A salt drier comprising a cabinet having a number of shelves arranged therein, a drum reinovablyr secured in said cabinet below said shelves and having aninlet and i reame Said 'fuin, a shaft ineuned in said drum and having agimtois theeon, means OI revolving said Shaftj and means for heating said cabinet.

.in 'estiniony where-0i ture.

niiix my signa.-

ROBE W'IC B. WCKER. 

